Britain and Sweden are on target for reducing global-warming gases, but other countries will have to toughen policies and rely on “carbon trading” to achieve their Kyoto Protocol goals by 2012, says a new U.N. report. In the United States, meanwhile, emissions of so-called greenhouse gases climbed by 16 percent …

SAN FRANCISCO – Federal investigators searched Arizona Diamondbacks reliever Jason Grimsley‘s house Tuesday as part of their investigation of steroid use in baseball. Thirteen agents searched Grimsley’s house in Scottsdale, Ariz., for six hours, according to Internal Revenue Service Agent Mark Lessler, who would not say what they found. In …

MANILA, Philippines – Prosecutors in a rape trial involving four U.S. Marines accused the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday of delaying the proceedings by refusing to allow American Navy investigators to testify. The judge in the case ordered the embassy to explain the situation after a U.S. Navy investigator who testified …

Sun., June 11 at 8 p.m. ET Hosted by Oliver North As the struggle for Iraq continues, terrorists have not let up in their battle against coalition forces. But, this week they suffered a decapitating blow to their leadership: A pair of precision guided bombs ended the bloody reign of …

WASHINGTON – A government ethics official testified Wednesday she might not have authorized a Bush administration executive to accept free airfare for a golf vacation if she had known he was advising the donor, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, about government properties. Instead, Eugenia Ellison, an ethics officer and lawyer at …

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Several thousand Shiite Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hezbollah took to the streets of southern Beirut on Thursday night, burning car tires and blocking roads — including the highway to Lebanon’s international airport, police and witnesses said. The trouble began shortly …

HOUSTON – A seven-year-old boy struggled so hard as his mother drowned him that his small fists remained stiff and raised over his head hours later, the medical examiner testified Wednesday. Noah Yates also had deep bruises consistent with someone holding him down, as did 6-month-old Mary and 5-year-old John, …

Small business owners still reeling from last year’s storms in the Gulf Coast are being given an extra month to apply for federal disaster loans, the Small Business Administration announced Friday. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s NEW Small Business page. The deadline for economic injury loans has been extended from …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq‘s prime minister unveiled a 24-point national reconciliation initiative Sunday, offering amnesty to insurgents who renounce violence and have not committed terror attacks. Nouri al-Maliki ‘s much-anticipated plan lacked important details, but issued specific instructions to Iraqi security forces to rapidly take control of the country so …

The following is a transcription of the June 24, 2006 edition of “FOX News Watch”, that has been edited for clarity: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ERIC BURNS, CO-HOST: It’s time now for our “Quick Takes” on the media. Headline No. 1: “Making Sense of the Threats” North Korea seems to be …